 | James Cowan - American fiction - 1896 - 432 pages
...then go away and come on the other hemisphere. We know this means great changes of climate, and as the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of its orbit is about the same as that of the axis of Mars, we believe we would have equally violent changes... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - World history - 1897 - 442 pages
...of the seasons. Presumably he is able to apprehend that these phenomena go back for their causes to the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of its orbit, and to the eccentricity of that orbit ; that is, its deviation frqm the circle. It may not... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Ethnology - 1897 - 794 pages
...of the seasons. Presumably he is able to apprehend that these phenomena go back for their causes to the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of its orbit, and to the eccentricity of that orbit ; that is, its deviation from the circle. It may not... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1900 - 704 pages
...Year and the Seasons. — Movement of the earth in its orbit round the sun. Effect of the constant inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the orbit. The shadow of the earth, its form in space, and how it produces eclipses of the moon. The shadow... | |
 | Geology - 1927 - 482 pages
...depending upon the homogeneity of its constituents, there would arise certain surface conditions due to (1) the inclination of the axis of the Earth to the plane of the orbit, (2) the irregularity of velocity of the Earth in its revolution on its orbit, (3) the gradual... | |
 | Charles Rollin Keyes - Geology - 1927 - 946 pages
...depending upon the homogene of its constituents, there would arise certain surface conditions c to (1) the inclination of the axis of the Earth to the plane of ' orbit, (2) the irregularity of velocity of the Earth in its revolut on its orbit, (3) the gradual... | |
 | Kazimierz Demel, Stanisław Rutkowicz - Barents Sea - 1966 - 322 pages
...influence of the Arctic or Polar Circle and extends between latitudes 68° and 80° N. The tilting of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic along which the earth rotates about the sun means that at the Pole every day and every night lasts... | |
 | Nicholas Jardine - Science - 1988 - 324 pages
...positions and not nodding at all. And the simple assertion that this angle varies is not true. For the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of the ecliptic always remains the same, whether at the equinoxes or at the solstices, but the earth does not always... | |
 | Ed. Anuj Goswami - 148 pages
...the Earth (a) i and ii (b) i, ii and iii (c) iii and iv (d) only iv 175. What are the cosequences of inclination of the axis of the Earth to the plane of the eclipse at 66.5° C? (i) The duration of the day and night time at any place except on the equator... | |
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The true cause of the variation of the seasons consists in the inclination of the axis of the earth to the plane of its orbit; or, in other words, to the ecliptic. 
